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Department: 
Maths
Biography: 

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright was a British mathematician. With J. E. Littlewood Cartwright was one of the first mathematicians to study what would later become known as chaos theory. She saw many solutions to a problem she was studying and this would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.

Date of Birth/Death: 
1900-1998